When Your Boss Is Under Pressure: On the Relationships Between Leadership Inconsistency, Leader and Follower Strain
Leadership Research Summary: • It is widely acknowledged that leadership is crucial for follower health. Under stress, positive leader behaviors such as transformational leadership may decrease and the risk of negative behaviors such as abusive leadership may increase. Followers experience these discrepancies in leadership between routine and stressful periods as inconsistent. While positive and negative […]
The Trickle-Down Effect of Authoritarian Leadership on Unethical Employee Behavior: A Cross-Level Moderated Mediation Model
Leadership Research Summary: • Authoritarian leadership is of great significance to eastern countries, including China. Meanwhile, unethical employee behavior also exists in all types of social organizations. The relationship between authoritarian leadership and unethical employee behavior is worth studying. Senior leaders (managers) often do not have a direct influence on employees except for through their […]
Tell us about your leadership style: A structured interview approach for assessing leadership behavior constructs
Leadership Research Summary: It is widely recognized that leadership behaviors drive leaders’ success. But despite the importance of assessing leadership behavior for selection and development, current measurement practices are limited. This study contributes to the literature by examining the structured interview method as a potential approach to assess leadership behavior. To this end, researchers developed […]
From genes to minds to cultures: Evolutionary approaches to leadership
Leadership Research Summary: • Evolutionary perspectives are part of any comprehensive explanation of leadership and, more generally, hierarchy formation in groups. This editorial describes contributions to a special issue on the theme of “The evolution and biology of leadership: A new synthesis”, and in which researchers reach four main conclusions: o First, leadership has been […]
The pandemic that shocked managers across the world: The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on leadership behavior
Leadership Research Summary: • In March 2020, the COVID-19 virus turned into a pandemic that hit organizations globally. This pandemic qualifies as an exogenous shock. Based on the threat-rigidity hypothesis, the researchers hypothesized that this shock increased directive leadership behavior. The researchers also argue that this relationship depended on the magnitude of the crisis and […]
Is there a glass ceiling for ethnic minorities to enter leadership positions? Evidence from a field experiment with over 12,000 job applications
Leadership Research Summary: • Researchers conducted a field experiment to analyze if there is a glass ceiling for ethnic minorities entering leadership positions in organizations. We submitted over 12,000 job applications, to over 4,000 job advertisements, to investigate hiring discrimination against six ethnic groups for leadership positions. Drawing on implicit leadership theory, we argue that […]
An integrative review of leadership competencies and attributes in advanced nursing practice
Leadership Research Summary: • The aim of the study was to establish what leadership competencies are expected of master level‐educated nurses like the Advanced Practice Nurses and the Clinical Nurse Leaders as described in the international literature. • Fifteen studies and seven competency frameworks were examined to produce a synthesis of 150 identified competencies. The […]
Leadership in healthcare education
Leadership Research Summary: • Effective leadership is a complex and highly valued component of healthcare education, increasingly recognized as essential to the delivery of high standards of education, research and clinical practice. To meet the needs of healthcare in the twenty-first century, competent leaders will be increasingly important across all health professions, including allied health, […]
Tell us about your leadership style: A structured interview approach for assessing leadership behavior constructs
Leadership Research Summary: • It is widely recognized that leadership behaviors drive leaders’ success. But despite the importance of assessing leadership behavior for selection and development, current measurement practices are limited. • This study contributes to the literature by examining the structured interview method as a potential approach to assess leadership behavior. To this end, […]
The impact of government integrity and culture on corporate leadership practices: Evidence from the field and the laboratory
Leadership Research Summary: • To understand what drives corporate leaders to choose certain corporate governance practices there is need to look beyond the individual traits of the leader, examining the effect of the elements of the institutional environment on managerial decisions. • Drawing on the contextual approach to leadership and insights from institutional theory, this […]